Republican lawmakers are working to cut off ballot measures that enact progressive policies by making it harder for ...

Progressive ballot measures in California have suffered crushing defeats, even as similar initiatives succeed in red states. These losses show that ballot initiatives can backfire on the Left ...

Why it matters: Direct democracy is hot – particularly in an era ... ballot measures because of the high turnout, said Chris Melody Fields Figueredo, the executive director at the Ballot ...

Voters in 24 states and the District of Columbia can bypass their legislatures by gathering signatures to get proposed laws or constitutional amendments on the ballot. But about 40 bills in roughly a ...

Republican elected officials are trying to roll back passed measures and place restrictions on citizen-led initiatives.

Our California ballot ... the initiative (in which citizens can introduce a law) and the referendum (in which they veto one passed by lawmakers) as a cure for the era’s populist and progressive ...

But the outcomes of a list of ballot measures ... initiatives should be considered before making judgments about the state’s electorate. “On the whole, California is still more progressive ...

a group that supports progressive ballot initiatives. “Because of how widely successful reproductive freedom ballot measures have been, we are seeing this as a tactic used to confuse and ...

The California Democratic Party, labor unions and progressive ... measures in the past. The foundation and some newspapers have called it a “revenge initiative” that weaponizes the state’s ...

In Nebraska, 57% of voters approved a ballot initiative that repealed a ... probably wouldn’t have backed quite so many progressive ballot measures. Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel ...

marijuana legalization and other progressive initiatives on the ballot. GOP lawmakers contend their measures are shielding state constitutions from outside interests. “This is not a bill to ...

Here are key themes from those initiatives ... says ballot items like these signal a backlash. “Most of the ballot measures that we were voting on in 2020 were more progressive in nature ...